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Zero Day Code
- End of Days, Book 1
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
Every modern city has one week’s worth of food to feed itself. Then it will collapse.
Cut off the resources to New York, Sydney, or even a mid-size metropolis, and millions will soon starve. In Zero Day Code we see those immense and open, hyper-complex, networked supercities of the new millennium die. And in the last moments we see their vengeance take form as all the best and worst traits of humanity bubble to the surface.
Zero Day Code is set in a realistic near future with dwindling global food supplies under increasing pressure from worsening droughts, floods and extreme weather events. Written by prolific Australian writer John Birmingham, the thriller follows a handful of survivors from the first day of society’s descent into violent, uncertain futures.
James, a consultant to the US National Security Council, is the first to suspect that the worldwide emergence of a crippling computer virus is actually a cover for something else - a devastating cyber-attack by China on the food distribution system of the United States. The attack is a bid for the Middle Kingdom to distract America as it seizes the food bowl of South East Asia and feeds its starving population. But Beijing has miscalculated.
Follow the missions of an embittered activist chasing salvation, a single mum rescuing her child from a frantic San Francisco and an army veteran who has long retreated from society, as the world they knew crumbles around them.
Please note: this audiobook contains mature content and listener discretion is advised.
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- Brian Rundle
- 20-09-21
Very very good
This was an excellent book.
Thoroughly enjoyable.
The narrator is absolutely brilliant!!
His accents are top class.
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- Shel
- 29-03-21
Excellent first part
Zero Day Code is one of those books that feels all too plausible due to the excellent world building complete with a rich tapestry of characters all on their own separate, engrossing, paths. Narrator Rupert Degas is a perfect match for author John Birmingham's material.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-09-22
what a gem!
excellent content and the fact it's included with a subscription justifies the audible fee
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- Anonymous User
- 04-11-23
Just WOW
I've listened to the whole sir series and this goes for all the books this is a brilliant apocolypse story the books to come only get better In quality and the whole storyline is wonderful
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- Dan
- 30-04-24
brilliant narrator
A great story made even better by a brilliant narrator who had a wide range of distinct and excellent accents
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- J Hitch
- 02-08-19
Chillingly Realistic
Great book. Took me an hour or so to get into it as it jumps to different characters a lot. But the characters are great and the narration is amazing (apart from the couple of times it uses phone sound effects). I was a little disappointed with the end. I really hope there’s a follow-up.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-07-19
Good story
very good, enjoyable and will look to see if a next one is available yet.
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- DTC
- 30-11-21
gritty and engaging
a good listen, gritty and engaging some nice variety of characters exploring the darker side of people.
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- Audiobooks Nest Reviews
- 25-12-21
So Real, So Smart, So Gripping
🧡 This is like watching a Netflix series on the collapse of the world as we know it. It’s just brilliantly done. The style is fast paced, with multiple storylines and viewpoints. Some are tough to take, others lighter and easy going. The mix means there’s a good balance. There is some stereotyping and simplification of the human condition, but this is probably necessary with so many voices.
💚 I found the detail in this impressive. Very few apocalyptic stories delineate the end with such microcosmic thoroughness. Mr Birmingham has really thought this out… Anyone checked on him? You okay, John?
💜 It ends very suddenly, but worry not. There are two more books in the series. And at the time of writing, they are all included in Audible Plus (which is annoying as I’d bought them already, but it’s great news for others).
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🎧 Narrator Rupert Degas is the mimic octopus* of the vocal world. Australian voiceover, female British copper, gruff American outlaw, he embodies them all effortlessly. As I said at the start, this audiobook has the seamless quality of a top tier miniseries and it is all narrated by one man.
🎧 Everything about this production is carefully thought out. No bells or whistles, just a straightforward, but meticulously made product. Even the chapter listings are thorough.
*(Look it up. Think chameleon with tentacles)
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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO...
If you like the in-depth nature of this, try William R Forstchen’s After series, which the author intended as a warning bell on the danger of EMPs.
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- Lee
- 10-08-21
Entertaining....
I didn't expect much from this title, but absolutely loved it! Glad that all three of the trilogy are available to download. Already half through the next book - Recommended :)
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